"The Government and BP is missing in action," Donofrio claimed, asking where are the boats and ships that could be "sucking up" the underwater oil before it gets into the Loop Current and into the Gulf Stream.

But it's not clear even a flotilla of such boats could prevent some of the oil from escaping the Gulf of Mexico.

If it does, Tony Bogan, son of Captain Howard, said the fish won't survive.

"Their air is the water," Bogan explained. "If you can imagine the air being filled with oil as opposed to the water being filled with oil -- what it would do to you or me."

And once on its way, "There's no traffic lights," said Captain Howard Bogan, "they just keep on plugging [up the Gulf Stream]."